RQ08907 - Sr. Technology Architect
- Toronto, ON, Canada
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- English
Original job description
RQ08907 - Sr. Technology Architect
Downtown, Toronto
Hybrid - office 3 days a week
Contract 7+ months
Security Level: CRJMC (must get clearance before start date)
Key Responsibilities
- Lead end-to-end security design and architecture reviews for common cloud platforms (AWS, Azure, GCP) and major SaaS applications
- Develop and maintain secure-by-design reference architectures, patterns, and guidelines tailored to IaaS, PaaS, and SaaS deployments
- Perform threat modeling, risk assessments, and gap analyses to align solutions with internal security standards and regulatory requirements
- Define identity and access control strategies, including SSO, MFA, PKI, and least-privilege models
- Design various network and infrastructure security controls: e.g. network segmentation, security groups, firewalls, SASE, IPS/IDS
- Architect data protection solutions: encryption key management, Transparent Data Encryption, tokenization, DLP for cloud and SaaS data
- Integrate application and infrastructure logs into SIEM platforms (Splunk Cloud, Azure Sentinel) and design SOAR playbooks for automated response
- Collaborate with DevOps and engineering teams to embed security requirements in CI/CD pipelines, leveraging IaC tools
- Facilitate design workshops, governance gates, and architecture review boards; document decisions and action items
- Mentor junior architects and security engineers, sharing best practices and driving continuous improvement
Must-haves:
- Proven leadership in technical security architecture for enterprise environments
- Security Architecture and design with Cloud Platforms (AWS, Azure)
- Experience with SaaS ecosystems
- Strong grounding in application architecture, networking, and security operations
- Client Relationship Building skills.
Nice-to-Have:
- Public sector experience
- AODA
More about this job
Responsibilities
The Senior Technology Architect at Source Code will set the security design for cloud and SaaS systems, review architectures, and build secure reference patterns. The role also runs threat assessments, works with DevOps teams on security in pipelines, and mentors junior architects.
Requirements
Candidates need proven leadership in enterprise security architecture and hands-on design experience with AWS and Azure. Experience with SaaS ecosystems, application architecture, networking, security operations and client relationship building is also required.
Skills
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Splunk Cloud
- Azure Sentinel
- SIEM
- SOAR
- Infrastructure as code
- CI/CD
- Threat modeling
- Risk assessment
- Gap analysis
- Identity and access management
- Single sign-on
- Multi-factor authentication
- PKI
- Least-privilege design
- Network segmentation
- Firewalls
- SASE
- IPS/IDS
- Transparent Data Encryption
- Tokenization
- Data loss prevention
- Encryption key management
Categories
- Technology
- Software
- Security & Safety
- Consulting
Keywords
- Senior Technology Architect
- security architecture
- cloud security
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- SaaS security
- IaaS
- PaaS
- threat modeling
- risk assessment
- identity and access management
- SSO
- MFA
- PKI
- network security
- SASE
- SIEM
- Splunk
- Azure Sentinel
Seniority
Senior
Tools
- AWS
- Azure
- GCP
- Splunk Cloud
- Azure Sentinel